Word: statements
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...matter, of course, could not end there. After Cuomo sardonically noted that he had been "cursed . . . even to hell," John Cardinal O'Connor, Vaughan's superior, declared that the bishop had the duty to warn any Catholic against pursuing a gravely evil course of action. Thus Vaughan's statement was in the tradition of saints like John the Baptist and Thomas More -- one of Cuomo's acknowledged role models -- who also reproached public figures from prison for misconduct...
Professor Clive was, then, hardly in sync with the dominant tune. One didn't have to attract his attention. It was indeed difficult to avoid it. When I entered Harvard, I read the Confi-Guide's annual admonition: "Mother Harvard doesn't cuddle her young." John Clive rendered this statement a falsehood, and made this university so much more of a human place...
...woman in the Coop decides not to transgress. She settles for safe romance, rather than any sort of subversive statement about her relationship to the man she tells me is her "soon-to-be" husband...
...first card is a joke between women friends, an acknowledgement that all might not be perfect even on a day dedicated to the pursuit of storybook romance. The second card is the real statement--the decision to follow the forms and rituals that guide the expression of emotion in American society...
...A.N.C. leadership's response was cool. In a statement released in Stockholm, where Tambo is recuperating after a stroke, the Congress said De Klerk's steps were important but expressed concern that the state of emergency is still in place and that some of the government's opponents would continue to be detained. It said it would review the prospects for negotiation, but in the meantime asked all countries not to do "anything to lessen the isolation of the apartheid regime...